On the occasion of the exhibition requested for a ph.D.
: Park Sun-nyeo, a candidate of Dankook University Graduate School
Sailing to the Sun, the One Light
1. Encounter
Park Seon-nyeo's work was encountered through a Ph.D. research course at Dankook University Graduate School, and I saw the process of change throughout the research process of her works. Park Sun-nyeo, who had a seriousness and sincere attitude toward her studies, took my art theory class and presented her goals, interests, and artistic perspectives as an artist. She was a lady of confidence who worked on oil paintings with sunflower figures as her main motif, and she captured expressive moods, conversational messages, and hopes for life with her own handwriting, experienced material management, and a delicate nuance. Along with the objectification of a life that is dotted with love and sacrifice, her interpretation of life, which feels almost religious, supports Park Sun-nyeo's work. After about two years of the research process, the shape of the sunflower gradually became abstracted, sublimated into a circle, and the straightforward "sunflower" became abstracted into "light." As the screen is being filled with a large circle, geometric abstractions and lyrical abstractions revealed in the color and the texture of the surface are being proactively combined.
The lyricity and the infinite sense of the original figure are coordinating the nuance of matter and spirit through the main motif of "light". The unity and loyalty of "light" combine people, the universe, objects, and passion, from the sun god of the three-feet crow to the eyes of Monet and science. While the process of Park Seon-nyeo's work proceeds from "Sunflower" to "Circle" and "Concrete" to "Abstract," "Light" and "Hope," which reflect the entire process, are firmly maintained as a sensuous and expressive foundation through the thick Matierre of the screen.